Would you recommend the product? No |
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Pros:

First two ingredients are named meat products

Cons:

Insuffiecient meat content, mixed quality ingredients

The first two ingredients in the food are named meat products. The second of these is in meal form and the sole significant meat product in the food. The first is chicken - inclusive of its water content. Once this is removed, as it must be to make a dry food, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that it is the true first ingredient in the food, and it is likely to be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list and is unlikely to make any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food. There is a further meat meal ingredient 12th on the ingredient list. This is a fish meal, however, and we fail to find any assurance on the manufacturer's website that the ingredient is not treated with Ethoxyquin. Ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative, banned or heavily regulated in human food, and believed to be carcinogenic (and is commonly added to fish meal ingredients).

Egg product is the third ingredient, though we would prefer to see the use of whole eggs.The main grains in the food are barley, millet and rice, all of which are decent quality. Potato protein adds to the protein content of the food, but this is very low quality protein compared to that obtained from meat. Further carbohydrate sources are oatmeal and potatoes. Tomato pomace is primarily filler.

Overall, this product appears better than some produced under the Diamond label, although the ingredients overall are of mixed quality and we have limited confidence in the meat content of the food.